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Melania speech scandal gets four times the coverage as Obama’s lifted lines in 2008

By Becket Adams
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Melania speech scandal gets four times the coverage as Obama’s lifted lines in 2008

Melania Trump’s plagiarism scandal this week has earned four times the coverage from the major networks than was given in 2008 to when Barack Obama was caught lifting lines from then-Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick.



Melania Trump delivered an address Monday evening at the Republican National Convention featuring passages taken directly from a speech that Michelle Obama gave in 2008 at the Democratic National Convention.

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